Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
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Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extract
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